Elderly Woman Says Star Trek License Plates Stuck Her With Thousands of Dollars Worth of Speeding Tickets

Her license plate had the same alphanumeric ID as the Starship Enterprise, now she gets tickets from across the country.

Watch the Cringe TikTok Videos That Got an LA Cop Fired

An employee of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department posted cringe and lied about it. Repeatedly. It was enough to get him fired.

Police Celebrate as Absurd ‘Grappler’ Device Ends Chase With a Crash

Police departments across the country love sharing videos of officers causing fleeing cars to crash with Grappler nets.

California Cops Show Off Absurd New Cybertruck With Music From Terminator Movies

Because if we learned anything from the Terminator franchise, it's that cops are good.

California Cops Are Getting Cybertrucks: ‘We Like This Dumpster’

The Irvine Police Department posted a picture of the Cybertruck on social media then immediately went to war in the comments.

Police Drone Nabs Vehicle Burglary Suspect in Santa Monica as ‘Futuristic’ Surveillance Becomes Reality

Are you ready for a world with police drones everywhere?

Cops Are Now Using AI to Generate Police Reports

The dreaded law enforcement contractor Axon has pioneered a new software for writing police reports, but critics are wary of its impacts.

France Passes New Bill Allowing Police to Remotely Activate Cameras on Citizens’ Phones

The bill will reportedly apply to suspects in crimes that are punishable by a minimum of five years in jail.

‘SweepWizard’ Policing App May Have Exposed Personal Data on Hundreds of Officers and Thousands of Suspects

A flaw in the app's API reportedly let anyone with a specific URL view data on officers, suspects, and the operations they were engaged in.

Biker Gets Caught After Posting Police Chase on TikTok

In hindsight, this may not have been the suspect's smartest move.

Police Report Casts Doubt on Elon’s Claim That ‘Crazy Stalker’ Followed His Son X

Cops are investigating a police report claiming it was actually one of Musk’s security guards that hit someone with a car, not the other way around.

San Francisco Reverses Vote to Let Police Use Killer Robots After Fierce Backlash

More than 100 people protested a policy allowing robots to use lethal force at San Francisco City Hall. Dozens of activist organizations opposed it, too.

San Francisco Votes to Give Cop Robots Explosives—and Permission to Kill

Initially, the policy stated that robots could not be used as “use of Force against any person,” but the cops requested that be changed.

Arizona Outlaws Close-up Filming of Cops—But Is It Constitutional?

The right to film police is subject to a patchwork of conflicting state laws with no Supreme Court intervention in sight.

Interpol Nabs $50 Million and 2,000 Alleged Scammers in Crackdown on Social Engineering

Alleged scammers from all over the world were caught up in Interpol's anti-fraud dragnet this week.

Justice Department Admits: We Don’t Even Know How Many Predictive Policing Tools We’ve Funded

The Justice Department has acknowledged its own lack of oversight over controversial cop grants in a long-awaited letter.

FBI Might Shut Down Its Police Use-of-Force Database Because, Surprise, Cops Aren’t Participating

The feds set up the database in 2019 to track police use of force across the country. But voluntary participation has turned it into a fiasco.

How We Determined Predictive Policing Software Disproportionately Targeted Low-Income, Black, and Latino Neighborhoods

A trove of unsecured data allowed the first-ever independent analysis of actual crime predictions across the U.S. by the self-described software leader, PredPol

Cops Are Getting Free High-Tech Lassos to Use on Suspects by Sharing Their Body Camera Footage

BolaWrap manufacturer is using police footage and testimonials to market its devices to other departments.

Supreme Court Asked to Consider if Fifth Amendment Protects Passwords